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Folklights

We are paving the way toward a new, sustainable business model for filmmaking as a steady, local, community-driven movement. We need your help to make this great idea a reality, and we want you to join us in shifting the industry from Hollywood to hometown values, placing people, community building, and quality time spent together at the center of the industry in our local community and rippling out beyond.

Camera

Most practically, one of the largest line items on a film’s budget is renting camera, lighting, and sound equipment. Since we are building the infrastructure for continued filmmaking here in Sonoma County, the best and most sustainable option is for us to purchase this equipment. Also important is software, hardware, and safe digital file storage.

Action

More long term, we want to educate future filmmakers from a foundation in Folklight’s values, with an eye toward training local people to work in the film industry here at home and in the world beyond. We have a dream of seeing Sonoma County children become successful filmmakers, creating positive change in the industry, seeing their films on the screens of our five North Bay film festivals, and coming back home to work in their industry while living close to their extended families. We’d love for you to be part of making that dream happen, because we believe it’s a dream many of you will share with us.